Ellen Kanner
Content by Ellen Kanner
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Anita Diamant has faith in one thing the connection between women. She explored and celebrated that connection, that powerful bond of sisterhood, in her 1997 novel The Red Tent.
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Only Maya Angelou can write about loss and make it uplifting.
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"I must still be a girl approaching puberty," says Judy Blume, creator of Blubber, Margaret, Deenie, and Fudge -- some of the most enduring characters in young adult fiction.
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David Guterson peers out at Miami's lapis Biscayne Bay as though straining to see something else-an island off Washington's dark Puget Sound, his home and the place of his haunting novel, <
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With her new novel Fortune's Rocks, Anita Shreve, author of the bestseller The Pilot's Wife, returns to the time she loves, the 19th century.
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Tracy Chevalier feels lucky. Not because her novel Girl With a Pearl Earring has sold one million copies and is still making the bestseller lists.
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Barbara Kingsolver was a little girl of seven when she and her family left their Kentucky home to spend two years in the Congo. When she returned, the world looked totally different to her.
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Meet the hapless denizens of Eagle Lake, Mississippi: Byron Egan, preacher and former drug mule; Max Raymond, who gave up practicing medicine to play jazz sax for the woman he loves and who s
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Freud posited that the keys to mental health are work and love, and if he was right then Robert Olen Butler is the sanest man on the planet. It doesn't always look that way.
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The seven deadly ones get all the press, but it's the multitude of other, seemingly petty sins that Richard Ford writes about in his new short story collection.
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Ethan Canin wants you to read between the lines.
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For Connie May Fowler, stories are medicine. There is might and magic in them. "Speak or write the words down, and the world becomes a clearer place.
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Irish writer explores love and longing among the overlooked. I was interested, always, in any story about passion, says Kathleen de Burca, the narrator of My Dream of You.
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In Joyce Carol Oates's new novel, Broke Heart Blues, headlines scream SUBURBAN TEEN TRIED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF MOTHER'S LOVER.
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When stuck in traffic, Maeve Binchy doesn't lose her temper, she takes notes. "I watch people. I'll wonder about this woman—I bet she's out for her first date.
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In The River King, ghosts appear in photographs and people are knocked out by an overwhelming smell of roses "though the weather was dismal and no flowers bloomed." This isn't th
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Remember when your parents told you you'd always treasure your teenage years?
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Donna Tartt knows people have been talking about her. She's used to it.
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Like an archaeologist delving into the earth, unsure of what he'll find, Toronto author Michael Ondaatje immerses himself in the writing process.
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There's just something about Southerners.
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What makes a place home? As he researched his book Home Town, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder (Soul of a New Machine, 1981) wasn't sure he knew the answer.
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One of fiction's cardinal rules is to write what you know, and from her rich depiction of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, the setting for her new novel Standing in the Rainbow, you'd bet Fannie
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Superhuman strength, x-ray vision, the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound -- Superman's got it all, believes author Michael Chabon.
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Jane Smiley doesn't do autobiography.
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